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    Nov. 3, 1860J The Saturday Analyst and L...

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    Miscellaneous Works. Social Science In T...

    language and thought of a well-known author whose works on cognate Subjects have had an eitensive circulation j and have been esteemed as Valuable contributions to our modern philosophic literature . The Other article of the number in the department of philosophy is one on " The Province of Logics and Recent British Logicians , " at the head of which are the works pi Mr . John Stuart Mill , Archbishop Wh & tely , the Rev . H . L . Mauhsel , and Sir "William Hamilton . The literary articles comprise Interesting ones on " Lord Macaulay ' s Place in English Literature , " " American : Humour , " " Leigh Hunt , " all of which will be read with interest . Then we have elaborate articles on the important subject of " The Sicilian Game , " which goes largely into the most prominent Questions of foreign politics " The Disturbances in Syria , " , and " T ? he Spanish Republics of South America . " " The Martydbm of Q-aiileo" is the subject of a very interesting paper . There is also art article on the " Revivals , " which have attracted so much attention . The first number under the new management promises well for the future of this high-class periodical . JSlackwood's Magazine . No . 541 . Nov . 1860 . . London and Edinburgh : Black wood , and Sons . The " oyster season , " as we have been informed by sundry announcements ii . t sundry shell fishs hbps , having somet £ me " Commenced , " Vre find a timely and appropriate article in the present number of Blacktqood , in the shape of what thelDttrick Shepherd used to call " blanks , " which resuscitate our old friend , and the shellfish (? selfish ) shopkeeper ' s enemy , poor defunct Dando , the oyster-consuming notoriety , and who , according to tho authority before us , "Would sometimes oat Half , Iiia own weight of oysters ! n a day . " . Another string of well-written Verses , but this time in rhyme , entitled n CarpetJietn " gives us a metrical sermon , on an inversion of the text kc sufficient to the day is the evil thereof ; " the burthen of the strain being " Sufficient for . the day is the good thereof . " The light literature department is as usual racy and excellent . " The . Romance of Agostini , part 3 , " and " Norman Sinclair , part 10 , " are instalments of well known works in progress . There is a paper on " Ary Sche . ffer , " which vri . ll of course be read with interesti The more eolid portion of the contents Consists of articles on the important subject of " Civil Service ^ appointments , " Nomination and Competition , " The Administration of India , " and " Iron-clad Ships . " In a paper entitled " Judicial Puzzles , " the ¦ " Annesley case , " a curious forensic mystery , is discussed . ; in another , " the Courtesies of War , " the nice distinction between legitimate and irregular homicide , . which some would think a very nasty distinction without a > difference , is sought to be pointed out , with mathematical and metaphysical preci 3 ioni ^•/ itdCnliildnts Magazine . No . 13 . Nov ., 1860 . . London and Cambridge ! Macmillan and Co .- —The "Buckleys , " among other jokes invented for effectuating the convulsion of John Bull , perpetrate one on our old progenitor , Adam . " Why was he the happiest of men PBecause hehad no mother-in-law . " "A SJon-in-lawj" in the present tiumber of this excellent periodical , takes up the cudgels in their favour * And writes their " defence . " The article is signed " R . S . C , " Which , we suppose the pro-mother-in-law party will read a " real stunning champion . " That extraordinary entity , " Kyloe Jock and the Weird of Wanton Walls , " a legend in six chapters , reaches its fifth and sixth in the number before us . In the order of tho contents table it is followed by some beautiful verses full of , the deepest feeling , entitled , " The Lost Clue . " The editor contributes an article on " The Life and Poetry of Keatsi" We have in this number chapters 31 and 32 of " Tom Brown at Oxford ; " Italy is tho subject of two papers —one by the Rev . F . D . Maurice , entitled , "More Political Ethics---tho Neapolitan Revolution and the Fugitive Slave Law . " The Rev . Mr . Maurice aays that the Italian of to-day sees attached to tho cause of the King of Naples certain . " signs of God-desortion ; " but such signs are not always proofs of a bad cause j wo need hardly remind him of that cause so marked by what may truly bo oallod " Gk > d-desei'tion , " as to have elicited from its head and chief the words , "My God ! my G-od ! why hast , tliow forsaken me , " Wo need not say that wo are tho opposite of advocates for the King of Naples—vide our columns any time since he became the mischievous agent ho is ; but wo warm the Rev . Mr . Maurioo against ploying with doublo-edgod weapons , the tiso of which ho does not appear quite to understand ; ho ought to know that tho argument , " a cause doos not prosper , thorofore it is bad , " is an historical paralogism . Tho Rev . Mr . Maurice had much bettor confine himBolf to the general good likely to bo produced by promoting the liberal cause . Tho other paper on Italy is entitled " Italian Unity and the National Movement m Europe , " by John Sale Barker . We specially commend this important artiolo to the attontion of the public It urges tho neoessity of a union of all Italy as ono great State , and regards the movement in that quarter as tho commencement of one which must spread over all Europe " It is , " says tho writor in his concluding parngraph , " a pi'ogrossivo stop for humanity , in whioh political liberty will at length take root seouroly ; it heralds the introduction of a now and bettor publio law—a law arising from this awakonod understanding and moral sense , whioh reject tho dootrine that conquest or deoroes of prinoos can entail any moral obligation on the people thus subjooted or disposed of . " The author of" John , Halifax , ( 3-ontloman , " contributes a short artiolo , entitlod " Blind ! " and some poofcry , " The ( 3-olclen Island—Arran from Ayr . " There is also bopqo poetry by Alexander Smith , entitled " Torquil ancl Oona . " A paper on " Systematized Exorcise , " and ono on •' Indian Cities , " make up the dozon artioloB whioh furnish tho oontents of this month ' s number . Tho Cornhill Magazine . No . H , November . London ; Smith , Blder , and Co . — " EVamley Parsonage " contributes Chapters 81 , 82 , and 38 to November ' s number . There is a poem , " Last Words , " by Owen Meredith , with an illustration . " Italy ' a Rival Liberators " is a paper on an interesting subjeot . " Oratory , " " Work , " " Weather , " ana " Neighbours ,. " ore tho titles of vory readable contributions . " Tho Eoujidabaut Ptvpors" ( with nn illustration ) nre as amusing ns ovor ; the Bubjoot of tho prosont instalment being " Notes of a Week's Holiday . " Tho contribution on politioul economy , . entitled " Unto This HJnet j" bogins with an allusion to tho extreme Yftgupnosa of terms in ubo , and it is a ouvious illustration of tho defect in question , that at tho Tory

    commencement of the article the writer himself employs an equivocal ex ^ pression that has led to the 3 trangest mistakes . In reference to Mr . j ; S . Mill's obvious proposition ( " Principles of Political iBconomy ; " B . 1 : chap , iv . j s . 1 ) , tha * , if a manufacturer spends sdnte of his savings ir [ " wages to additional Work-people , " instead of "in buying plate and jewels , " or hiring an additional number of menial servants , the effect will be that "more food is appropriated to the consumption of productive labourers ; that food is thus set free for productive purposes , " the writer suggests , the difficulty , " what is to become of the silvei * - smiths ? If , " he continues , "they are truly unproductive persons , we will acquiesce in their extinction , " ( the italics are ours ) , and it is implied that the same remark is equally applicable to the " servants : ' * The writer then says , "I very seriously inquire why iron ware ia prd i duce and silver ware not ? " Now , in the first place , the " extinction' * of a class is very often interpreted to mean the killing by starvation ; or , perhaps , by some " process of painless destruction , " the individual men , women , and children composing the class . But the fact is that a class may be utterly annihilated , abolished , dorie away with , yet Hot dnly may the individuals who composed it survive , But be much happier and more useful members of society than they were ibefofe '; If " productive labour" were found . for able-bodied paupers , the able-bodied pauper class would cease to exist—it would be " extinct ; " but the individuals who composed it would continue to . exist , and in a much better state than before . Ancl next , — " ~ with regard to the second question > " why iron ware is produce - — - and silver wai * e not ? " No . one ever pretended that even raw silver , provided it-i 3 . not in tite / . bowels of the earth , but has been '' acquired" by man , is produce , " . much less silver ware ; the real point is , that articles of luxury , such as silver ware , are less Useful tHari articles of necessity , like iron ware ; without iron ware we can neither dig minerals nor till the earth , reap harvests , nor traverse the earth in land carriages or the sea in ships . But our dinner would afford just the same nutriment without a sex * vice of plate as with it . And it . is because iron ware is useful in productive labour , in producing other things which satisfy human needs , and silver ware is not , that the class employed in " producing" the former is a more useful class than that used in producing the latter . And so . witli " Bervdnt . sv' We should find ourselves in what our American cousins so pithily ievth & slight " difficulty" without tlic bricklayer , the carpenter , the shoemaker , the tailor , the agriculturist , but if the editor of the Cornhill Magazine ' s " Jeaines Plush" were subtracted , as an " institution , " and in that sense rendered " extinct , " it is difficult to tell who would be the ¦ y t ^ orse : though very easy to tellwho would be the better if " Jeames , " insfeead of consuming only and producing nothing , took to some useful employment , such as a' scavenger , for example , whose labours are instrumental in the " production" of the very essential element of a good sanitary state of things . In its comprehensive sense , the word V produce" is applicable to everything whatever that satisfies human wants . For example , take such an instance as public amusements * The manager of a theatre Or a concert-room mny be said to produce amusement ; a thing which is the object of a public want , and he ought to be as free to engage in this mode of ' < production' * ( assuming it to be reeogiiised as a legitimate business at all ) , without any artificial obstacle being interposed bylaw ( vide , article on the licensing system * in our number of the 20 th October ) .. This is no new doctrine , broached for the first time . In a work , published two years ago , is the following passage : —¦ " It is necessary to explain here the meaning of the words " cause" and " produce , " as used in reference to labour and wealth . We have defined wealth , in its widest eenee , as whatever is instrumental in satisfying human wants j and . wo have shown that labour igt indispensable for the production of wealth , in other words , is tho causd of wealth . The skill and ability of the st'liooluiastcr sufisfy human wants , and the coal and iron dug up by tho miner satisfy human wants ; it is tho labour of the miner that is , the cause of satisfying the need for iron and coal , as it is the labour of the schoolmaster that is the cause of satisfying the need of education ; the latter - producea education , just as much as the . formor may be said to produce iron and coal , by his labour . The working olnsses ' ' of a country mny thqroforo , in the more extonded signification , of the term , be defined as those who are instrumental in satisfying human needs . In the strict sense of the phrase , the productive classes ' mean those only who produce material wealth suited for satisfying physical wants , as agriculturalists , minors , masons , carpenters , and , in this sense of tho word , nil who do not do this , as clergymen , are ' non-productive' classes . There aro also classos who merely consume , and who either do not work at all , or whose labour is either worthless or positively detrimental to the community , such bb gamblors , betting men , the predatory clashes , and tho idle portion of the aristocracy : all these consume without producing anything , except what is positively uiisohievoua to tho nation . —( Handbook of Reform , Part 2 , artiolo , " Theory of Taxation . " ) JPmser ' s Hagaxina . No . 371 . Nov . 18 G 0 . London : J . W . Parker and Son , "West Strand . —This magazine contains , as usual , an excellent and varied collection of articles . Of " continuations" ( wo don't mean pantuloone ) , there are " Gryll Qrango , " chapters , 30 to 32 $ tho third and concluding Paper on " Alison ' s jlietory of Europe j" " Ida Oonway , " chap . 6 ; the second Paper of " France and Paris , 40 , 30 , and 20 years ago" and another psychological Paper of Mr . Bain's , " Tho Sentiments , aooording to Phrenology , Exuminod , " tho former having beoii dovoted to tho " Proponsitios . Mr . Monokton Mijnes , M . P ., contributes an artiole , " Alexander Humboldt at tho Court of Berlin ) " and thei'o aro Papers on " Huntors and Hunting ,- " "The Philosophy of Murriago studied under Sir Orcsswoll Oreeswell' ( the latter being an extremely taking title ) j bosidea eomo poetry ; and tho number oonoludos with the exoellent " Ohroniole of Current History . There is another artiolo , whioh raises suoh imporlflnfc quostiona that wo reserve it for separate notioo . It is entitled " Politioul 3 i < oonomy in the Clouds , " und is nn onorgolio orjalaught on Mr , Runkins disquiaitionu in tlie Cornhill Mitf / aslne , notlooU in nnotlior ortiolo , but Bugffosts to us tho old docgrol , « jiily llioro bI . iouIU suoh difloronoo bo 'twfxt twoodlo . dum and twoodlu-doo / Tlio vvritor Bu . ys , quoting Mr , Ruskin , « when amau afllnnd that notliing in hiBtorv haa ever been bo diagruooful to human intolloot aa the uoooplanoo ftmong us qi the common doctrines of political eoonomy , ' he may at loast Bo expootod

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 3, 1860, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03111860/page/11/